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curricle

American  
[kur-i-kuhl] / ˈkɜr ɪ kəl /

noun

  1. a light, two-wheeled, open carriage drawn by two horses abreast.

curricle British  
/ ˈkʌrɪkəl /

noun

  1. a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side

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Etymology

Origin of curricle

1675–85; < Latin curriculum; curriculum

Example Sentences

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"I can drive her home in my curricle: if we set off at five in the morning, we can perform the journey with ease before dark."

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson

Took Rigby's curricle and horses for the two hundred he owes me—glad to have done with him—he evidently wanted a row—and so play with him no more.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

She stood silent, supported by him, looking on the prostrate horses and shattered curricle; then turned her grave eyes on the doctor.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

Sir Kennington behaved admirably, and himself brought him home in his curricle.

From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony

Mr. Knightly rides from Brunswick Square to Hartfield, by a road that Miss Austen herself must have travelled in the curricle with her brother, driving to London on a summer's day.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

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